Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.

I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you're about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.